The High Master and Little Billy Clough

The High Master and Little Billy Clough

by John Waddington-Feather
In the course of a highly-prolific literary career, English writer John Waddington-Feather has written an amazing outpouring of work that includes novels, plays, children’s books, sermons, essays, poems, translations, and hymns.
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Coupling

Coupling

by Alison MacLeod
Alison MacLeod was born in Montreal in 1964. She is the author of two novels, The Changeling and The Wave Theory of Angels.
Her short stories have been published by Prospect, London Magazine, pulp.net and Virago.
She lives in Brighton and teaches creative writing at the University of Chichester.
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The Will Writer

The Will Writer

by Alison MacLeod
Alison MacLeod was born in Montreal in 1964. She is the author of two novels, The Changeling and The Wave Theory of Angels.
Her short stories have been published by Prospect, London Magazine, pulp.net and Virago.
She lives in Brighton and teaches creative writing at the University of Chichester.
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The Calm Before

The Calm Before

by Denise Mina
Denise Mina was born in Glasgow but grew up around Europe as her family followed the North Sea oil boom.
Her first novel, Garnethill, won the CWA best first novel Dagger. 'Helena and the Babies' won the CWA short story of the year. After the Garnethill trilogy she wrote a stand alone, Sanctum, and then began the Paddy Meehan series.
She also writes plays and comics for DC Comics, recently finishing a year long run on 'Hellblazer'.
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Magic & Childhood: three tales of innocence from Israe

Magic & Childhood: three tales of innocence from Israel

by Etgar Keret
Israeli writer Etgar Keret has been praised for his surreal, funny and fiercely serious stories, which are collected inMissing Kissinger, The Nimrod Flip-Out, The Bus Driver Who Wanted to be God and Jetlag.
He is also the joint author, with Samir El-Youssef, of Gaza Blues, an attempt to bridge the Arab-Israeli divide with fiction.
These three stories were published in Prospect magazine and also appear in Missing Kissinger.
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St. John of the Miraculous Lake

St. John of the Miraculous Lake

by Rebecca O'Connor
Rebecca O’Connor was awarded the Geoffrey Dearmer prize for ‘Best new poet’ in 2004, and was shortlisted for the New Writing Ventures Poetry Award in 2005. She received a bursary from the arts council in Ireland to complete her debut novel He Is Mine and I Have No Other, and her short story ‘The Mayfly’ was an award-winner in the 2003 Virago/Marie Claire short story competition.
She was a writer-in-residence at the Wordsworth Trust in 2005 (her collection Poems was published by them in 2006), and she recently edited a book of Irish women’s short stories calledScéalta. She works as a fiction editor at Telegram in London.
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How the Tiger Got Its Stripes

How the Tiger Got Its Stripes

by Nicholas Hogg
Nicholas Hogg was born in Leicester in 1974.
After graduating from the University of East London with a psychology degree, he travelled widely, living in Japan, Fiji and America. He is now settled in London teaching literary skills to refugees.
Winner of the New Writing Ventures prize for fiction in 2005, and twice shortlisted for the Eric Gregory award for young poets, he has recently completed his first novel, Show Me the Sky.
More of his work may be read on his website.
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Smile Mannequin, Smile

Smile Mannequin, Smile

by Courttia Newland
Courttia Newland was born in 1973 in west London. He is the author of four novels, has co-edited three anthologies (including IC3: The Penguin Book of New Black Writing in Britain) and is a co-founder of the Tell Tales collective, a short story initiative. He was Chair of the judges for the 2005John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (awarded in 2006).
The 12 stories in Music for the Off-Key delight in the dark, the grotesque and the uncanny.
'Smile Mannequin, Smile' is reproduced by kind permission of the author and Peepal Tree Press.
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